Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 13hIf you don't want one of those meals, can I have it? 100
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I watched the whole thing and cried twice. A reminder that politics doesn't have to be the worst people in the world enriching themselves. Instead it can be driven by care and commitment. I hope he and his mostly female cabinet can do what they set out to do. www.youtube.com/live/jyjTT_5...youtube.comWatch in full: Andy Burnham's keynote speech to Labour conferenceYouTube video by ITV News 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Did it with 20 mins to spare. No phones out in the shop though, so you’ll just have to believe me. 001
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Well, we’re in Paris (zone 4). Chances of getting to hotel and then back into city before Shakespeare & Co closes are getting slimmer. Will we make it? 210
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Today in bookselling I will attempt to visit Shakespeare & Co in Paris before it closes tomorrow evening. I leave shortly. 020
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Today in #bookselling I sent a lot of emails and none of them were answered. 020
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is incredible. What do sales look like for those author visits? I used to do 30+ of these per year, but then sales fell like a stone. 100
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 24/08/202620 yr veteran kids bookseller here. Teachers are community minded by nature but BUSY. If they already know and trust a contact at an indie bookstore they will order there. Publishers used to host author dinners and invite booksellers, librarians and teachers. They could and should do that again. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I had the absolute privilege to attend a Golden State Valkyries game tonight. It was epic. 021
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026If it has a prepaid envelope in it, I often send it back empty. Every penny counts. 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026For reasons I can’t explain I get shit like this in the mail all the time. This is how those maga books end up on bestseller lists. PACs buy them by the pallet-load and they don’t care if they resell them or give them away. That’s why the publishers keep churning them out. Grift books. 100
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I put off listening to this, I was worried I wouldn’t like it now I’m not a teenager. Turns out that this may be a foundational text for me. No, you’re crying. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026My CD haul today has a 38 year span from 1986 to 2024. Lots of good finds. 030
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Today in CD nostalgia listening it’s James day. And I have a controversial take. Gold Mother is better than Laid. I know Brian Eno produced Laid, but Sit Down is on Gold Mother. You can’t argue with an anthem. 020
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026And I have the box, but no CD. Mystery solved.static.klipy.comScooby Doo Where Are You: Running ScaredALT: Scooby Doo Where Are You: Running Scared 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Wait, what? That was indeed on the list, but easily replaced. 100
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I am currently crate digging for CDs that I once owned on vinyl, tape or have previously ditched out of embarrassment. I found this at Rasputins in Berkeley for $1.99. And I am Obsessed with it. Someone locked some energetic jazz musicians in a room and let them go NUTS. 120
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Treaty of Versailles (part deux). So stupid. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The last three gigs I’ve been to have included recorder solos. Belle and Sebastian were great tonight and last night. Such nostalgia and great to see the 20-something hipsters still love the band I loved when I was their age. 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 07/06/2026We have two regular dog visitors in the store, one is called Gusto and lives up to his name. The other is Ms. Minna and she is some sort of dog aristocrat (aristodog?). In any case they are both good dogs. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I once saw a man walking down Charring Cross Road in London. He was older, but had real swag and the kind of charisma that was turning heads. I noticed it was Anthony Head just as he walked past me. I was way too London to bother him. But I appreciated seeing a legend go by. 051
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I am addicted to Duolingo. I realize I am 6 years behind everyone else. 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Obviously it’s The Beths with no apostrophe, stupid autocorrect. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I caught a band bracelet at The Beth’s gig tonight in Berkeley. They were amazing, tune after brilliant tune. #thebeths 130
Reposted by Clare DoornbosJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE. 269138184173
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Look, all I'm saying is that if you're middle aged, you should re-listen to Life by The Cardigans. It won't solve anything, but it will remind you about being in your 20s. And that jangly, lounge, jazz, indie pop was briefly a thing for a few glorious moments. (I'll see you at the B&S tour). 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 17/05/2026All I'm saying is there's a very real chance that I'm the Bangaranga. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Today in bookselling I had a conversation with another grown-up about our favorite dinosaurs. We both agreed ankylosaurus is the best. 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I bought a CD player so I could play this 1980s masterpiece. 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Music. Loud. Dancing around with the kids to said music. Going to a gig, which sounds like it will just be exhausting, but is actually always just what I needed. 020
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I know you're all wondering what you can get me for Christmas. I'll have any of these please. Although the boy in the fish for preference. Thanks. gerrishfineart.com/artist/david...gerrishfineart.comHockney, David - Gerrish Fine ArtDavid Hockney is widely acknowledged to be Britain's greatest practitioner of the graphic arts. He began with lithography in 1954, as a sixteen-year-old student at the Bradford College of Art, and has... 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I want a record player, but I left my records back in the UK 20 years ago. So I'm buying a CD player, much less cool but I do have four big travel cases of CDs. I unearthed those earlier and found some ancient gig tickets. 15 pounds to see Franz Ferdinand. 30 to see Kylie. #old #rockhistory 050
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I went on holiday with one book and came back with eight more. To be fair, I did read three and a half books that week. 010
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Philadelphia Book Haul. From the Rosenbach Library, Head House Books, Brickbat Books and Partners & Son. 030
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I have a zine making problem. Come over to Mr. Mopps’ for Independent Bookstore Day tomorrow and get one of these delightful zine essays for free. Or if I know where you live I can send you one if you like. #zine #indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #ibd26 030
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Bookselling is low wage, high stress, often unpaid work. Booksellers work in social care and at the whim of corporations. It can be worth it, but when it isn't, stepping away is a brave thing to do. Janet Geddis, I see you and I support your decision. www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i... 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026American venues continue to be over the top. Great view from the nosebleed seats. 120
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I am both immensely proud of myself and ashamed that I didn’t ask one of dozens of professionals I know to edit it. It’s a chapbook, editing is too good for it. 020
Reposted by Clare DoornbosMaureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 12/04/2026Now send JD Vance to run the publicity team for the new Harry Potter series. 11879141
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 13/04/2026After many years of hanging around with poets and artists and writers, I have just written and produced my first chapbook. Tomorrow it will be reviewed by an expert at which point I will probably regret this choice but right now, I've got that "I made that" feeling. 130
Reposted by Clare DoornbosMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026What if the United States had a Congress? 509117141904
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Spent the day at a conference for booksellers. Did I miss anything? 000
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026LMK any time you need some rage research. I have a lot of rage. 120
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is for booksellers, so if the book isn't available to the trade market it won't be on this list. It does include books that are Out of Stock Indefinitely (which means mostly out of print). Here's a PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1KJJb... and a spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...drive.google.comRutherford County Libraries Restricted Children's Books.PDF 1205
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026My version is for booksellers, so if the book isn't available for us to buy it won't be on this list. It does include books that are Out of Stock Indefinitely (which means mostly out of print). Here's a PDF drive.google.com/file/d/1KJJb... and a spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets...drive.google.comRutherford County Libraries Restricted Children's Books.PDF 110
